MILITARY CROSS WINNER
(Fbom Oub Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, August 15. Lieutenant Victor James Gallic, R.F.A., who has been awarded the Military Cross for bravery in ihe field, is a eon of Mr John Gallie, of Wellington. He served at Samoa with tlio advance guard for nine months, and on his return to New Zealand left for England at his own expense, and was given a commission in the Royal Field Artillery. He was 'wounded in the battlo of Ypres, and came through the Somme fighting without a scratch. Lieutenant GaLlio is an old Wellington College boy, and at the outbreak of war held a sorgeantcy in D Battery. He is 26 years of age, and has two other brothers on active servicc—Lieutenant Oscar Gallie, also of the R.F.A., and Private Clyo GaJlie, of the 25th Reinforcements. Lieutenant Gallie was very _ well_ known in football, rowing, and running circles. He was on the staff of the Union Bank.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17084, 16 August 1917, Page 2
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